{"id":42527,"date":"2014-02-11T01:38:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lela_gilbert-why_canon_andrew_white_is_a_21st_century_hero\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T01:38:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T01:38:47","slug":"lela_gilbert-why_canon_andrew_white_is_a_21st_century_hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42527","title":{"rendered":"Lela Gilbert&#8211;Why Canon Andrew White is a 21st Century hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News in the Middle East is rarely uplifting. On a daily basis, a roiling brew of fanaticism, insurgency and hatred boils over into country after country, yielding death and destruction.<\/p>\n<p>In a region beset with such turmoil, it is highly unusual to come across someone who rises above the fray and \u201d\u201c without a trace of cynicism \u201d\u201c offers a message of hope. Thankfully, just such a voice was heard in Jerusalem this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Reverend Canon Andrew White is an Anglican priest from Great Britain who is affectionately known as the \u201cVicar of Baghdad.\u201d\u009d A large silver cross graces his chest; he walks with a cane and speaks with a faint impediment because of his personal battle with multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2014\/02\/06\/why-vicar-baghdad-canon-andrew-white-is-hero-for-our-times\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News in the Middle East is rarely uplifting. On a daily basis, a roiling brew of fanaticism, insurgency and hatred boils over into country after country, yielding death and destruction. In a region beset with such turmoil, it is highly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42527\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,50,74,557,203,435,184,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-iraq","category-middle-east","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-the-episcopal-church-of-jerusalem-and-the-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}